Sunday, October 23, 2016

STRANGER ALIENS (video)

When we
look for aliens, why do we always find ourselves staring back?

Humans have
long imagined beings in other worlds or on other planets whose emotions,
motivations and physiologies closely mirror our own.

Science fiction in its
many forms tends toward a human-inflected conception of non-human life out in
the Universe. This view of aliens as rather like us is fine for ancient myths
and Hollywood blockbusters, but even modern scientists can’t seem to shake the
notion that extraterrestrials’ decisions and behavior would follow logic and
patterns akin to our own. Many of the major scientific projects seeking life
elsewhere in the cosmos still rely on assumptions that reflect, above all,
ideas about how we would do something if we were aliens.

Narrated by
the British science writer Philip Ball, this Aeon original video argues that,
in order to stand a chance of succeeding, the modern scientific search for
aliens needs to ditch science fiction’s frequently simplistic and solipsistic
views in favor of a truly bold approach to imagining extraterrestrial life.

AWAKENING FOR ALL!!!

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